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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs
Republican Georgia state Rep. Terry England says that his experience with cows, pigs and chickens has proven to him that women should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
In a debate over Georgia House Bill 954, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if the baby is not expected to live, England recalled the time he had spent with livestock.
Life gives us many experiences, he explained. Ive had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive delivering pigs, dead and alive. It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.
England continued: You know a few years ago, I had a man come to me in our store, it was when we were debating, talking about dog and hog hunting, I believe, and at that point there was some language inserted in there that dealt with chicken fighting. And the young man called me to the side and he said, I want to tell you one thing. And yall, this is salt of the Earth people Im talking about, someone I would have never in a hundred years expected to tell me what he told me that day.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/georgia-lawmaker-compares-women-to-cows-and-pigs/
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)I'm so disturbed to see this crap regurgitated in state houses once again. This will cost lives and create misery.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)tell that this man's never been pregnant.
Someone wrote a book some years ago called, "If Men Got Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament".
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)and I can't wait to leave. This state sucks.
unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)We still have a few years before we can move home to Cali.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)So does this state...Texas. Wish I could leave.
saras
(6,670 posts)although I'm sure he'd self identify with the studs, and maybe applaud the logical conclusion.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)I think his office needs to be DUed